/lit/ - Literature

What in the schizo fuck did I just read?

i thought there were some moments in ubik that felt comparable to something in a lynch film

So, because of quarantine, decided fuck it and bought that PKD boxset. I read the first volume (High Castle, Palmer Eldritch, Androids, Ubik) this week. Just finished pic related. I don’t get why it’s considered his best. The religious allegories are pretty basic (God as commodity) and any Nabokov plot plays with indeterminacy much more creatively. Am I missing something? For what it’s worth I thought High Castle was the best of those four, I liked the whole notion of History as historical artifact that he’s playing with. Can someone tell me why this book is considered his best?

>sprays in your direction

Is this burgerpunk?

>>10862586

Just finished this. It was boring as fuck and had that ambiguity and laziness common among all books that aim to be launching pads for pseuds.

I actually read it many years ago and was bored back then as well. Well done, PKD, you managed to write a book that allows the pseuds to make up their own shitty unfalsifiable extrapolations. Even better you flavoured it with "like le spirit of let capitalism" with the Ubik adverts at the start of chapters.

Just finished this. It was boring as fuck and had that ambiguity and laziness common among all books that aim to be launching pads for pseuds.

I actually read it many years ago and was bored back then as well. Well done, PKD, you managed to write a book that allows the pseuds to make up their own shitty unfalsifiable extrapolations. Even better you flavoured it with "like le spirit of let capitalism" with the Ubik adverts at the start of chapters.

>>9930934
>ubiquitous

>>9833863
Lighten up and have some Dick, Susan.